Pre-College Ethics Interest Group
Updated September 9, 2009
Pre-College Ethics Interest Group News
The Pre-College Ethics Interest Group (PEIG) met for the first time at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethic's 2009 Annual Meeting in Cincinnati. Over twenty members interested in bringing an ethics-rich curriculum to pre-college students met to discuss strategies to better accomplish this goal.
The group agreed to focus first on creating regional high school ethics bowls using the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl model. PEIG will sponsor a presentation at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethic's 2010 meeting on this topic, and will invite speakers who have helped to create thriving ethics bowls to share their expertise.
To date, we know of three states holding high school ethics bowls: Maryland, Florida and New Jersey.
The second annual Baltimore Area High School Ethics Bowl, hosted by the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics at the University of Baltimore, took place in May 2009. According to Dr. Fred Guy, who coordinated the event, sixteen teams participated – up from six the previous year – and including teams from city, county and parochial schools. “We had a coaching clinic here at UB on March 13th and almost all of the coaches attended,” he writes. “Our major problem now is finding enough judges for the eight concurrent sessions.” Loyola Blakefield (Towson, Maryland) won the event. For more information about the event, visit: GreatKidsUpClose.
The Pinellas County (Florida) High School Ethics Bowl, also in its second year, took place on Saturday, April 25, 2009 on the Seminole Campus of St. Petersburg College. Ten schools participated - and it resulted in a tie for first place.
The Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, hosted an ethics bowl in June 2009 in which 16 teams competed. The team from Clifton High School (Clifton, NJ) won, and two teams tied for second place: Bethpage High School (Long Island, NY) and Indian Hills High School (Oakland, NJ). For more information, visit: Stevens Blog Ethics Bowl 2009.
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